Northern Virginia DataCenter Alley – 40% of Internet Traffic

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200 already built, 100 more already slated. Ashburn, Vigrinia (Loudoun County). Over 40% of Virginia power grid electricity feeds these monstrous facilities. GOOGLE MAPhttps://www.google.com/maps/place/Ashburn,+VA/@39.0160549,-77.4632026,3485m WIKIPEDIAhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulles_Technology_Corridor#Internet_infrastructure_and_data_centers Transcript

30 Years Ago We Helped a Client Avoid the Bomb named Borland Paradox for Windows

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Eclipsing from hodge-podge 2-base-10 and “sneaker net”, we built a complex multi-office routed network based primarily upon Linux but also hosting Lotus Notes servers and Windows NT4 servers in the full-blown Microsoft configuration with numerous Windows 95 workstations at several locations. (OS/2 was later tested, and Novell Netware held some legacy ground for years, but … Read more

Understanding Celigo with NetSuite, vs Tim Dietrich SuiteAPI

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Celigo is the do-it-all battleship to accompany the aircraft-carrier that is Oracle NetSuite. This dynamic duo can be pricey. An equally-capable lower-level framework, Tim Dietrich’s SuiteAPI is a free DIY tool that is designed to be maximally leveraged by integrators and coders for significant cost-savings. Both can be used together. One brings much pre-built possibility; … Read more

Birth of AI

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That’s a wonderful way to put it — “the dawn of AI computerania.” Let’s trace both meanings: the scientific birth of AI and the cultural birth (when the idea of AI really entered public consciousness — like through that Spielberg film you remember). 1. The scientific birth of AI — mid-20th century AI as a … Read more

Wonderful Example of AI Used per Cardinal Wolsey ORDO AI CHAO

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This takes the corpus of homogenous junk, reworks it with fringe arcane elements, and ‘sells’ it back to the collective — yet it is ’empty calories’ since what is already known rehashed is ultimately already known. It’s a wonderful example of Cardinal Wolsey’s Learning Against Learning scheme to cause chaos via information overload — prime … Read more

Blazing Fastest Website Uses Aged Tech

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Verifies out that clever and conservative tuning over time bests the excesses created by many minds. No surprise there. McMaster-Carr is a common ‘poster boy’ for speedy website performance. Domain registered in Aug 1994 and among the oldest, mcmaster.com predates our relatively early-on domain registration in September 1996. I emailed the mcmaster tech / sales … Read more

Why google favors .webp over .jpg

Size. Power. Speed. Google favors .webp over .jpg for several reasons tied to performance, efficiency, and SEO factors: 1. Smaller File Sizes Without Major Quality Loss 2. Support for Both Lossy and Lossless Compression 3. Faster PageSpeed Insights Scores 4. Reduced Bandwidth and Storage 5. SEO and User Experience 6. Ecosystem Push ✅ In short: … Read more

$1.5B to be Paid by Anthropic AI to Book Authors it Pirated, Infringed

The largest copyright recovery, ever. First of its kind. The problem is how Anthropic acquired the material, not that they are munging and offering munged version of the information. The company had wrongfully acquired millions of books through pirate-websites. Anthropic downloaded more than 7 million digitized books. What a brilliant business strategy. Instead of paying … Read more